I have accepted desperance/Chaz’s challenge, and will be writing a novel in five weeks.

Chaz is already ahead; he has 15K of an 80K novel written, and I have, um. Five or ten hand-written pages of a 60K novel written. More alarmingly, I have a Walker Papers proposal and a short story to do, both of which really need to be done before the novel. BUT I SHALL NOT DESPAIR.

What I shall despair over, just a little perhaps, is the discovery that the lullaby I’d been planning to base this book on (what, don’t normal people do that?) is actually Irish, which suggests the story should be vaguely Irish rather than vaguely Phoenician. In the end I will probably not actually let this bother me, but it’s kind of annoying. :)

so what does the winner GET?! (because I'm starting out on something new... but... but ... it just isn't FAIR, I haven't even begun yet and other people have 15K written... I can't HOPE to catch up...)

I think really what we all get is at least a significant chunk of book written, but if there are going to be like six or seven of us doing it (and it looks like there are!) maybe we SHOULD award a prize!

And I'm right there with you on the not hoping to catch up, but by gum we can TRY! Right? :)